Ares Management LLC, which has a joint venture with Challenger's Fidante Partners in Australia via a related company, has paid US$1 million to settle charges alleging it traded in a portfolio company based on non-public information while an employee ...

An industry superannuation fund is remediating some members after identifying performance discrepancies in its cash and Australian bonds holdings. REI Super said the average estimated credit is less than $60 per member, and the effect of remediation ...

The life insurer and its philanthropic foundation will partner with Foodbank to provide 186,000 meals to Australians from July this year to next summer as COVID-19 increases the demand for food relief. MetLife Australia and MetLife Foundation's donation ...

The ASX-listed regtech is raising $10 million to support international sales growth and product development, with existing investor and rich lister Richard White indicating support. Kyckr has received commitments for $8 million before costs via a new ...

Liberal MP Tim Wilson has written to APRA chair Wayne Byres urging the regulator to conduct an investigation into vertical integration at industry super funds and related conflicts of interest. Wilson, who chairs the House of Representatives' Standing ...

A corporate superannuation fund has pushed back its date of a planned successor fund transfer to Sunsuper by a year and is prepping members for potential future delays from COVID-19. The IAG & NRMA Superannuation Plan in February 2019 announced plans ...

First Sentier has appointed a managing director for Australia and New Zealand, alongside other departures and appointments in its global executive lineup. The business's chief investment officer for equities David Dixon is retiring while global ...

Victoria Funds Management Corporation has promoted a senior portfolio manager to head of equities, and hired from outside the company to fill the vacant role. Michael Stavropoulos has been named VFMC's head of equities after an internal recruitment ...

The industry-super-owned fund manager's credit team has about $500 million to deploy in the year ahead, eyeing opportunities in lending to mid-sized companies that will be forced to refinance after the COVID-19 crisis. IFM's credit team manages about ...

Aussie equities fund managers steadily improved in performance relative to benchmark from January to March, according to an updated SPIVA Australia Scorecard from S&P. In January, only 21.6% of Australian equities (general category) funds beat the benchmarks ...

HEAD OF AUSTRALIAN EQUITIESABERDEEN STANDARD INVESTMENTS AUSTRALIA LIMITED

Michelle Lopez is about to cap off her first year as the head of Australian equities at Aberdeen Standard Investments. She shares with Kanika Sood the journey that got her there and the challenges facing women in funds management.